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  title info:
    title: Cities in the sky
    sub title: the quest to build the world's tallest skyscrapers
  name:
    name part: Barr, Jason M.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxii, 355 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The world's skyscrapers have brought us awe and wonder, and yet they remain controversial, for their high costs, shadows and overt grandiosity. But, decade by decade, they keep getting higher and higher. What is driving this global building spree of epic proportions? In Cities in the Sky, author Jason Barr explains all, why they appeal to cities and nations, how they get financed, why they succeed economically and how they change a city's skyline and enable the world's greatest metropolises to thrive in the 21st century. From the Empire State Building (1,250 feet) to the Shanghai Tower (2,073 feet) and everywhere in between, Barr explains the unique architectural and engineering efforts that led to the creation of each. Along the way, Barr visits and unpacks some surprising myths about the earliest skyscrapers and the growth of American skylines after World War II, which incorporated a new suite of technologies that spread to the rest of the world in the 1990s. Barr also explores why London banned skyscrapers at the end of the 19th century but then embraced them in the 21st and explains how Hong Kong created the densest cluster of skyscrapers on the planet. Also covered is the dramatic result of China's 'skyscraper fever' and then on to the Arabian Peninsula to see what drove Dubai to build the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, which at 2,717 feet, is higher than the new One World Trade Center in New York by three football fields. Filled with fascinating details for urbanists, architecture buffs and urban design enthusiasts alike, Cities in the Sky addresses the good, bad and ugly for cities that have embraced vertical skylines and offers us a glimpse to the future to see whether cities around the world will continue their journey ever upwards.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Part I: America. Chicago: From dismal swamp to Second City -- New York City: The height king in the zone -- The American century: Hive minds in the sky -- Part II: Eurasia. London: From no to yes -- Hong Kong. From barren rock to world's densest city -- China: Skyscraper fever -- Oil-rich cities: Tales from the Arabian heights -- Part III: A global view. Preface to Part III -- Sky prizes: The value of height -- Cities and civilization: Skyscrapers and their discontents -- Futureopolis: The quest for the city of tomorrow -- Epilogue: Cities and skyscrapers in a post-COVID world.
  note: Jason M. Barr.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Skyscrapers
  subject:
    topic: Supertall buildings
  subject:
    topic: City planning
  subject:
    topic: Sociology, Urban
  subject:
    topic: ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
  classification: NA9053.S4 B37 2024
  classification: 720/.483
  identifier: 9781982174217
  identifier: 1982174218
  identifier: 9781982174231
  identifier: 2023056186
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 240108
    record change date: 20240712202438.5
    record identifier: in00004795264